Occupational health offers proactive and preventative advice and adjustments for workplaces to help employees remain at work and reduce absences. This can be through workplace ergonomics to tackle musculoskeletal (MSK) issues, wellbeing strategies to help overall wellbeing, mental health support to ensure positive mental health and high focus, as well as health surveillance to keep health risks low at work.
Whilst many people might think that occupational health is a last resort option, it’s actually the opposite. Here at UKIM, we support you in maintaining good employee health through various preventative strategies such as health surveillance and employee wellbeing strategies, as well as offer treatments like physiotherapy, counselling, and more.
Health surveillance can be a legal requirement if your employees are exposed to various things that are hazardous to their health, e.g. asbestos, sound, vibration, ionising radiation etc. It’s a series of regular health checks to make sure that employees are fit and healthy to carry on with their job. This is great for early detection and prevention and allows for employers and employees to get ahead of risks and issues.
Our employee wellbeing strategies are tailored to suit your workplace needs. They’re a useful way to monitor general health and mental health, creating a happy and healthy workforce. We have a vast team of clinicians and psychologists available to offer support and advice.
Preventative measures are effective ways to reduce the amount of sickness absences, and with a mental health crisis and NHS issues evident in the UK, this is something that you really need to consider. Along with reduced absences, the costs that are associated with sickness and presenteeism will be reduced, strengthening business finances.
Through various preventative measures, like our workplace wellbeing strategies, a positive and happy workplace culture is created. This means there’ll be higher employee retention rates, better job attraction and recruitment, increased productivity and colleague collaboration etc. Happiness, morale and job satisfaction are key for business success and have more benefits than one might consider.
Remember, not everything can be prevented though, and our treatments and plethora of highly trained clinicians are here to support you in making sure employees get better sooner and return to work smoothly.
We ensure that employees have the support they need when they come back to work so the transition is effective and they’re less likely to return to sick leave. We do this by advising on reasonable workplace adjustments, check-ins, treatments and support plans.